Burnfoot Community School understands the need for all pupils to develop their spoken language, reading, writing and understanding of grammar as an essential component of all subjects and as a subject in its own right. A good understanding of Literacy skills is a basis to fully accessing all other areas of the curriculum.
Our aims in teaching Literacy are that all children should:
- have an interest in books and read for enjoyment
- read a varied selection of texts whilst gaining an increased level of fluency and understanding
- develop a range of reading strategies for approaching reading: using and
applying phonological, contextual, grammatical and graphic knowledge - use reading as a means of gathering information to support their learning throughout the entire curriculum
- read and write with confidence, fluency and understanding, orchestrating a range of independent strategies to self-monitor and correct
- write in different contexts and for different purposes and audiences,
including themselves - write with increasing awareness of the conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling
- have an interest in words, their meanings and be developing a growing
vocabulary in spoken and written forms - form letters correctly, leading to a fluent and legible handwriting style
- develop listening and comprehension skills through a variety of means
including reciprocal and non-reciprocal situations - develop their oral abilities at their own level
- express opinions, articulate feelings and formulate appropriate responses to increasingly complex questions and instructions
Literacy is taught daily at Burnfoot Community School and much of this work will spring board from using a rich text, with children enjoying a wide and varied range of literature and genres. Key skills in reading, writing, listening and talking will be developed and consolidated upon, before children are then stretched and challenged through a range of exciting learning opportunities.
Click below to download our Literacy Handbook to get some more information on our approaches to learning and teaching Literacy.
